Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Examiner: METZGER, MICHAEL J

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2142 2182 2183

This examiner grants 90% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

90.5%
Allow Rate
+35.5% vs TC avg
524
Total Applications
+7.8%
Interview Lift
956
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 494 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.4%
§101 Eligibility
13.3%
§102 Novelty
54.4%
§103 Obviousness
9.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18990080 MULTI-VARIATE STRIDED READ OPERATIONS FOR ACCESSING MATRIX OPERANDS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18149072 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADING (SMT) SCHEDULING TO MAXIMIZE PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE ON HYBRID PLATFORMS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17947642 SPARSITY PROCESSING ON UNPACKED DATA Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
19071690 Vector Processor Architectures Non-Final OA Altera Corporation
18194327 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLOATING POINT MULTIPLICATION AND ADDITION AND CONVERSION EMPLOYING VARIABLE PRECISION Non-Final OA Altera Corporation
18771764 PROCESSOR WITH HARDWARE-INTEGRATED MEMORY ACCESS PROTECTION Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
19029952 MULTI-LEVEL HIERARCHICAL ROUTING MATRICES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNITION PROCESSORS Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18846638 TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED SIMD FUNCTION UNIT Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
19044204 USING RENAMED REGISTERS TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE VSET{I}VL{I} INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA SiFive, Inc.
19111422 PROCESSOR THAT IMPLEMENTS INDIRECT ADDRESSING-STYLE CONDITIONAL JUMP INSTRUCTIONS, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD Non-Final OA TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
19038352 DATA PROCESSORS Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18919168 PROCESSOR Final Rejection Arm Limited
18355282 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18991188 Selective Data Compression for Non-Critical Memory Requests Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18620948 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OUT-OF-ORDER TASK RESOLUTION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18618838 RESCHEDULING WORK ONTO PERSISTENT THREADS Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
19017668 SYNCHRONIZING SCHEDULING TASKS WITH ATOMIC ALU Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18161830 COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY SRAM USING MEMORY-IMMERSED DATA CONVERSION AND MULTIPLICATION-FREE OPERATORS Final Rejection THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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